Badge-button.



No. 654,297. Patented. luly 24, |900. B. S. WHITEHEAD.

BADGE BUTTON. (Applition ledlay 10, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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Unire BENJAMIN S. VHITEHEAD, OF NEWARK, NEV JERSEY.

BADGE-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 654,297, dated July24, 1900.

Application filed May 10, 1900. Serial No. 16,138. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN S. WHITE- HEAD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Badge-Buttons, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to badge buttons which consist, essentially, of anornamented' or inscribed button-like shell provided with anattaching-pin held in separable connection therewith by springing aportion of the pinwire beneath a rim or collet at the back of the shell;and my improvements consist particularly of certain novel features inthe form of the pin-wire, combined with the shell, whereby certain newand useful results are attained, as is hereinafter more fully setforth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the back of a badge-buttonembodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, showingthe badge shell in section. Fig. 3 shows my novel form of holding-wire.Fig. et is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing the pin-point sprungbeneath the body of the holding-wire. Fig. 5 is a perspective viewY of amodification. Fig. 6 is a back view, and Fig. 7 is an edgefview, withthe badge-shell in section, of another modication; and Fig. 8 is a planview of another modication.

In all the iigures the same parts are designated by the samereference-letters.

A is the badge-body, which is formed in the usual manner of a metalshell, carrying a design on paper or similar material and a celluloidfacing secured thereto by a collet B and having a disk C in the back ofthe shell to receive anysuitable emblem or inscription. Theholding-wire, which I combine with this composite badge body or shell,is formed of a spring-wire, with a double recurved or looped bodyportion D, the various curves of which in the examples shown in thedrawings I have designated as F G H I and which is extended at one endinto a straight pinpointed portion E. The looped or recurved form of thebody of the wire allows it to be sprung together somewhat as illustratedby the dotted lines in Fig. 3, so as to be slipped beneath the collet ofthe badge-body, Where the expansive elasticity of the spring-body willrmly hold its terminal curves F I in separable contact with the underside of the collet, the connecting-curves G H lying across the back ofthe button and serving as an additional guard or holder for the disk C.

J designates a rearward curve or bend of the S-shaped body portion,located in that part which is crossed by the pinpoint E, `which lies inspring contact therewith, so that when the pin is passed through clothor other material to which the badge may be attached the material willbe gripped between the bend J and the pin, giving increased security tothe attachment.

It greater security is desired, the pin may be sprung sidewise, as shownby the dotted lines in Fig. 4, and allowed to spring under the bend J,which forms a keeper and eectually locks the pin in place.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a supplementary bend J', the accented curve ofwhich forms a more special seat for the pin-point, if this is desired.In Figs. 6 and 7 I have shown a form in which the bend J is omitted fromthe body portion D of the holding-wire, which lies against the back ofthe shell, and the pinpointed portion is extended to engage with theedge of the shellange, and in Fig. 8 I have shown a further modificationwherein the looped or recurved portion of the spring is shortened up anda long straight member K is interposed between the spring and thepin-pointed portion.

By using the looped or recurved form I secure a stiffer spring thanresults where the spring is a continuous curve of over half a circle andlies entirely under the collet, as in previous forms.

In the examples shown in Figs. 1 to 5 the pin portion is shorter thancommon, and hence stier, and it is also sustained by the locka ing-bendJ. I-Ience I can use a lighter and less expensive wire than hasheretofore been required and yet obtain a strong, satisfactory, andserviceable form of attachment for the badge-button shell.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. The combination, in a badge-button, of a rearwardly-recessed shell,provided with an inturned holdingilange, a securingwire, formed with arecurved spring body portion IOO , backward transversely of the shelland parallel with the plane thereof, and lying normally in springcontact with said intermediate rearward bend or curve of the bodyportion, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, in a badge-button, of

ra rearwardly-recessed shell, provided with an inturned holding flange,a securing Wire formed with a recurved spring body portion lyingprincipally free from said holding-liange but adapted to belongitudinally compressed so as to permit its extremities to be sprungother end of said holding-wire being pinpointed and being bent outwardand then backward transversely of the shell and parallel with the planethereof, and lying normally in spring contact with said intermediaterearward bend or curve of the body portion,

and being adapted to be laterally deflected and sprung beneath the same,substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination, in a badge-button of a rearwardly-recessed shell,provided Withgan inturned holding-flange, a securing-Wire provided witha longitudinally compressible spring body portion embodying the curvesF,

G, H, I and the intermediate rearward bend J, one end of said wirelbeing extended in a curve corresponding with that of the holdingange,and the other end, E, being pin-pointed and extended outward and thenbackward,

` and lying normally in spring contact with the bend J, said spring bodyportion being adapted to be compressed longitudinally and to engage withits curves F and I beneath the holdling-flange, substantially as and forthe purposes set forth.

BENJAMIN S. WHITEHEAD.

Witnesses:

EDWARD D. CONKLIN, JOSEPH B. SHORT.

